The Coos Bay District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sold two timber sales Wednesday, May 23, including the Chetco Bar Fire Salvage timber sale, in support of working landscapes across the West. Southport Forest Products, LLC purchased the Chetco Bar Fire Salvage timber sale for the appraised price of $198,499.20. The sale includes the harvest of two million board feet of timber from 140 acres in the harvest land base in Curry County that were burned in the 2017 Chetco Bar Fire. The BLM designed the timber sale to recover economic value and to minimize further deterioration of damaged trees on a portion of the 6,501 acres of BLM lands affected by the Chetco Bar Fire. The BLM also sold the First Floras timber sale to PJF, Inc. of Myrtle Creek, Ore. The timber sale includes 1.2 million board feet of timber in the harvest land base in Curry County. PJF, Inc. purchased the timber for the appraised price of $133,347.80. It takes approximately 16,000 board feet of lumber to frame a 2000 square foot home, this means that one million board feet of timber is enough to build approximately 63 family sized residential homes. For additional information on the Bureau of Land Management’s timber program, please visit https://www.blm.gov/or/resources/forests/index.php
